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I find this article too lenient and fan-boyish with Nortel inner value. It looks like that the hack is the reason of the complete collapse of the company. But
by greatgib 6y ago
I find this article too lenient and fan-boyish with Nortel inner value.
It looks like that the hack is the reason of the complete collapse of the company. But the article gives the following sentence without even reflecting on it:
<< Four days before Dunn was fired—fallout from an accounting scandal on his watch that forced the company to restate its financial results—
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And, in my opinion, such a hack and the lack of action of Nortel after being informed of the hack are also symptoms of a defective organization.
This is probably an element of little value, but I knew some people that did work at Nortel in engineering and this is just my opinion but they were technically very very bad but they were convinced otherwise.
From others I also got the feedback that the company was the kind of place where most people fake working.
Just to give you an example: around 2016, one of a former manager at Nortel that was now a high level executive in another company forced employees to work in a packed open space despite there being a lot of empty space on the same floor. Why? Because he knew better than anyone that software engineers are more productive in an open space... Despite recent studies and the opinion of the poor employees themselves. At the same time, the moving allowed him to get an individual closed room for himself...